penury

Noun

Meaning

Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution.

Penuriousness; miserliness.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

need indigence pauperization pauperism lack demand failure needs want difficulty poverty trouble necessity bankruptcy famine
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Antonyms

clover hap bliss diamond success frequency
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Hypernyms

poverty impoverishment poorness

Hyponyms

beggary mendicity mendicancy

Phrases with the word

reduce to penury

Anagrams

pruney

Examples

Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you're doing. It shows you possibilities you haven't thought of. It enables you to live the lives of other people than yourself. It broadens you, it makes you more human. It makes life enjoyable. M. H. Abrams

But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. Thomas Gray

It is beyond belief that we know so little about how people get rich or poor, about how it is they come to dwell in comfort and health or die in penury and disease. Benoît Mandelbrot

He proved to be one of the four thousand lawyers of Naples, ninety per cent of whom – surplus to the needs of the courts – had never practised, and who for the most part lived in extreme penury. Norman Lewis

The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death. William Shakespeare

Extravagance is the luxury of the poor penury is the luxury of the rich. Oscar Wilde

Close letter words and terms

penuriously penuriousness penurity Penutian Penutianist Penwell